Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra, Fashion Designers

Photo: Spencer Heyfron

So you guys live and work together?
R.T.: We met in 1994, and we’ve been partners professionally and in our lives since then.

Sounds intense.
R.T.: It’s the way we learned to be together. For us, it’s second nature.

That’s a lot of plaid you’re sporting.
J.C.: It’s our signature, you could say.
R.T.: Essentially John Goodman was the trailblazer, but we’ve always had beards. We were the outcasts, but now you look around and everybody is our new clone.

Is that annoying?
R.T.: No, I love a beard! It looks good on everyone.

Why do you dress so alike?

Interview by Emma Rosenblum.

Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra, Fashion […]